Sonia Gandhi is still recuperating from her surgery, but she has got herself into handling issues plaguing the Manmohan Singh govt including infighting and court developments in 2G scam and cash for votes scandal. Sonia is said to be working on alternate plans for a possible adverse court judgements post-Dussehra vacation, when hearing on several scams resume. The forced patch between two senior cabinet ministers over secret 2G note, effected by Sonia Gandhi last week was part of her alternate plans to navigate the government's ship through the turbulent waters of scandals and scams.
Sonia Gandhi's partial resumption of party work and her first public appearance at Rajghat on Mahatma Gandhi's 142nd anniversary comes at a time when the opposition is going berserk in its criticism of the scam tainted UPA government. Her public appearance also came a couple of days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleged that there are forces at work to destabilize the government. With this in backdrop, Sonia Gandhiz appearance before Mahatma Gandhi's samadhi seems to be an attempt to make an emphatic statement that she is not losing grip over nation's politics.
Sonia Gandhi had given indications of taking command of the party affairs some days ago itself when she summoned Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in the wake of Bharatpur communal violence and two state ministers being dragged into controversies surrounding women, one of them is traceless while the other has died. Also, Sonia Gandhi called on Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar last week, which according to sources yielded into Kumar giving sanction to prosecute BJP MP Ashok Argal in the cash for votes scandal. Clearly, Sonia wants to put her message in a very straightforward style, that has been typical of her in past two decades.
Sonia Gandhi does hold the most important position in the national politics at the moment. Her public appearance makes news headlines, whether one agrees to it or not...
ReplyDeleteHeader is good... Sonia appears before Gandhi... on the birth anniversary of the Mahatma...
ReplyDeleteSonia must ensure that the govt focuses on governance as people are really in great distress thanks to the policies of the government of a coalition, she has been heading for past seven years.
ReplyDeleteSonia is just posturing... Her intent is not good...
ReplyDeleteRecently a cartoon strip published in a leading national daily showed Sonia standing infront of a dilapidated Congress Bhawan wondering what her subjects(pun intended)has done to it during her absence. A joke doing round also laid emphasis on this...which said that the state of house with reference to Congress in the absence of woman head.No doubt ever since Sonia took over the party rein it become a Matriarchial party.The awe and the charisma followed by unbridled which Sonia weilds offer explanation to her steel like grip on party. I still doubt her political credentials which is nothing in the absence of her well cultivated coetrie.Nonethe less no taking away credit from Sonia that she is a one woman national party the vintage congress.But with crisis raining like cats and dogs she will have to put tight leash on hawkish minister who speaks and then thins or else the non existent opposition till recently is standing up with renewed jest to bring down government.
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